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Monday, January 21, 2013

The world's richest, science's dumbest, weather's worst

Here is some general news which I feel is of prophetic import. This prophetic import is my opinion, of course :)

World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
"The world's 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is further enriching the super-rich. “The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent in the last 20 years with the financial crisis accelerating rather than slowing the process,” while the income of the top 0.01 percent has seen even greater growth, a new Oxfam report said. For example, the luxury goods market has seen double-digit growth every year since the crisis hit, the report stated."

This is interesting to me because the Tribulation, though the financial and economic systems will have been crashed and remade into a one world system, will contain the largest gap between rich and poor the world has ever seen. Though millions will be dying of famine and starvation for want of a loaf of bread, the trade in the world's richest luxuries will have been going strong throughout. See the verse indicating the poor in Revelation 6:5-6 and the rich in Revelation 18:9-20.

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Brazil rape statistics skyrocketReported rapes in Brazil rose by 157 percent between 2009 and 2012; 5,300 rapes in first six months alone
"Reported rapes in Brazil rose by 157 percent between 2009 and 2012, with Rio de Janeiro state recording 16 sexual assaults a day last year, according to official data released Sunday. In just the first six months of 2012, more than 5,300 people -- 90 percent of them women -- were raped in Brazil, which is home to about 194 million people."

This is interesting to me because of the verse in Matthew 24:12 --"And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold."

The word "lawlessness" here in the Greek means sin which is breaking God's law, not secular lawbreakers. But the result of sin often leads to secular lawbreaking, in the form of crimes such as rape. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 tells that the last days will be perilous in the extreme.

Avalanche in Scottish Highlands kills 4, injures 1
Four people were killed Saturday when a group of climbers was swept away by a powerful avalanche in the Scottish Highlands, local authorities said on Sunday. A young woman remains in a critical condition with serious head injuries. Large parts of Britain have been affected by heavy snow and strong winds in recent days. Accidents on the scale of Saturday’s incident are extremely rare in the United Kingdom

Nearly 40,000 without power in southeast Michigan, crews contend with frigid temperatures
"It’s a one-two punch for tens of thousands of people without power in southeastern Michigan. Wind gusts up to 60 m.p.h. roared through the area early this morning, knocking out power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses. Now, both powerless customers and utility crews trying to restore electricity have to contend with frigid temperatures moving into the area for the next several days."

I read a report from Scotland in 1990 that said avalanche fatalities were increasing and at that time two killed per year was the norm. Avalanche dangers have only increased from the 1990s as heavy snows increasingly fall on the Highlands as a regular course.

As for the "one-two" weather punch in Michigan, it seems that our weather has been "one-two-three-four-five...punch" of late. We are receiving storm after storm, interruption after interruption. This is expected, as Jesus said that there would be meteorological disturbances the closer to the Tribulation we get. (Luke 21:10-11). Jesus also said that during the Tribulation there will be even worse climatological events, such as drought for three years, no wind blows anywhere, sulfur from the sky, scorching heat that burns men, and more. The birth pangs we're experiencing now seem to indicate the disruptions are increasing in frequency and painfulness in advance of the total waywardnness of the weather during the Tribulation.

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Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby
Yet this incredible scenario is the plan of one of the world’s leading geneticists, who is seeking a volunteer to help bring man’s long-extinct close relative back to life. Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School believes he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA and resurrect the species which became extinct 33,000 years ago. His scheme is reminiscent of Jurassic Park but, while in the film dinosaurs were created in a laboratory, Professor Church’s ambitious plan requires a human volunteer. He said his analysis of Neanderthal genetic code using samples from bones is complete enough to reconstruct their DNA. He said: ‘Now I need an adventurous female human.

Since the Fall, it has been satan's desire to reduce man from human made in God's image, to monkey, or even a lower order biological lump, like an amoeba. It has been his desire to mingle the unholy and ungodly with the Godly and the holy so as to pollute anything God has done. The miracle of human birth via God's knitting of him in the womb, to brutal and unthinking neanderthal ape-man, is right up his alley.

Our fight is for the integrity of Genesis 1 and the creation in seven literal 24 hour days. Satan's war wages deep. Look how satan got to Billy Graham:

"How you believe doesn't affect the doctrine. Either at a certain moment in evolution God breathed into one particular ape-man who was Adam, or God could have taken a handful of dust and blowed and created a man just like that" (Billy Graham, 'United Church Observer' 'Sunday Magazine' June 1966).

God blew life into an ape-man? Satanic in the extreme. Billy Graham has always been a liberal compromiser and friend to the world.

"Despite their claims to the contrary, atheists use evolution as their religion to replace God. Evolution is a foundation for their set of beliefs about life and how it arose, just as creation, as described in Genesis, is our set of beliefs about how life arose. Atheists blindly hold to evolution because of their rejection of Christ."

Asking a woman to be a biological host for an alleged ape-man goes one step further toward Jesus' prophecy that immediately prior to His coming the days would be like the Days of Noah (Matthew 24:37), when as this passage titles it, there was "Increasing Corruption on Earth"

"When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." (Genesis 6:1-5)

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"Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God" (2 Peter 3:12).

Pray for His soon return, and hasten it. Do not let anyone belittle eschatology. Don't let anyone intimidate you away from knowing the important commands of living in expectation and anticipation of His coming, even looking for it, praying in alignment with it, and speaking boldly of it.

"Let's look at
verse 12 and just see the component parts of this tremendous truth.
Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, it's as if Peter
is saying you certainly shouldn't be afraid of it, you certainly
shouldn't be worried about it, you ought to be like those of whom Paul
speaks and with whom he identifies himself in 2 Timothy 4:8,
when he talks about those who love Christ's appearing. You ought to be
like John who said, "Even so, come Lord Jesus." Like Paul who said,
"It's nice to be here, far better to depart and be there." You ought to
have a longing in your heart for the coming of the day of God." (source)Even so, come Lord Jesus!

7 comments:

We lost power in those storms in MI Saturday night. 60 mph gusts, huge trees downed, and play structures knocked over. We were having flashbacks of the tornado that tore through our small town in mid-March last year. Granted, we have only lived here 7 years, but I have never seen such crazy weather! Thankfully power was restored about 4:30 yesterday. It's 6 degrees right now.

Another great post Elizabeth!I love how you give the scripture to back up what you say.

Yikes 6 degrees with no power is not just an inconvenience, but a life threatening situation! I'm glad you got it back! Thanks fr the remark about scripture- I think it's critical to do that, especially in prophecy discussions. It is really easy to go off the rails and see either everything as prophetic or nothing as prophetic. Using scripture keeps me grounded in the truth. If you read something that doesn't seem right to you, let me know! We need each other as iron sharpens iron.

Scientists have the world (and Geico) believing that Neanderthal man is an evolutionary link and some sort of "ape-man". Calling somebody a "Neanderthal" is degrading and brings to mind a knuckle dragging caveman.

Neanderthals were every bit as human and intelligent as us. Their brain capacity was greater than ours. They spoke. They created art. They buried their dead. They created music. I'm sure they worshiped our Creator.

Thousands of years ago, Nimrod created the word's first city (Babylon)and the world's first ziggurat. They had religion (a false one), art, and music. They had trades, and the world's first 'wonder' was there- the Hanging Gardens.

It was 4,000 years ago and Nimrod was not an ape-man. There were no ape-men. Only men that God created. Evolution is a lie that the brainwashed believe. More information here,

It should be noted that despite the ape-man beliefs, Neandertals are simply an extinct Caucasian people group. So the success of the program is something I would expect. The offspring will look much like any other European, possibly broader with more pronounced eyebrow ridges. "Neandertal" genes were in Noah's sons, and are in many of us today.

I beg to differ. There is a very big difference between extinct people groups and Neandertals. Science believes Neandertals lived 33,000 years ago. The earth is only 6,000 years old. Therefore Neandertal going extinct 27,000 years before the earth was formed is an impossibility.

Let's look at verse 12 and just see the component parts of this tremendous truth. Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, it's as if Peter is saying you certainly shouldn't be afraid of it, you certainly shouldn't be worried about it, you ought to be like those of whom Paul speaks and with whom he identifies himself in 2 Timothy 4:8, when he talks about those who love Christ's appearing. You ought to be like John who said, "Even so, come Lord Jesus." Like Paul who said, "It's nice to be here, far better to depart and be there." You ought to have a longing in your heart for the coming of the day of God

in the two or three days prior to this post, i spoke with unusual fervor and urgency to the king, on this exact matter

it's unusual for me bc i'm not in the habit of telling God what to do, much less when, and pleading on these things treads a fine line

scripture instructs that we CAN hasten the day of Christ's advent, not in rote prayer but in ways of ... unusual sincerity

remember, when the prophets needed to experience God, or were instructed by an angel or the spirit to expect and prepare for communication, they often prayed and supplicated for weeks . . . fasted, abstained from sex etc

the king's coming will be hastened by heartfelt prayer bc he has a lamb's (and a lion's) heart himself, and when his people pray to him in pain it wounds him and he responds

we know his character, his character is unchanging, so we can deduce certain actions

sorry i couldnt confirm your post at an earlier date, it's a busy time of the millennium :O)